Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
BERTOLT BRECHTBank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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